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Crunchy Frog
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Crunchy Frog's Journal
January 16, 2022
"I consider it completely unimportant who in the Party will vote, or how. But what is extraordinarily important is thiswho will count the votes, and how. Joseph Stalin, 1923 (as quoted in Oxford Essential Quotations, 2017)
Apparently from a memoir by Stalin's personal secretary.
Attribution right here.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1481743299576840199"I consider it completely unimportant who in the Party will vote, or how. But what is extraordinarily important is thiswho will count the votes, and how. Joseph Stalin, 1923 (as quoted in Oxford Essential Quotations, 2017)
Apparently from a memoir by Stalin's personal secretary.
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